3rd Quarter 2023 Long-Read Nominations

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nominations for the 3rd Quarter Long Read
July - Sept 2023

3rd Quarter 2023 Group Long Read nominations are now open! Please review the requirements below for book eligibility.

1. Eligible books must be a minimum of 600 pages in length. Nominations need to be a book, not a series of books nor an omnibus of books.

Past Long Read Books listed below are NOT eligible: Long Reads Bookshelf

Also books read within the past year are not eligible. In the interest of variety, please wait a month to renominate a book that has been in any poll.

2. Long Read Nominations must meet the same requirements as books being nominated for our New School and Old School monthly reads. Nominated books must be published prior to the year 2000.

3. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

4. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds moves to the poll.

5. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.

5a. A second can be withdrawn and placed on another choice. This change must in some way be noted in a post such as, "I am withdrawing my second for book A and placing it on book B." It will be easier to moderator to track changes.

6. Only one book per author; in the event of more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.

6a. Same author-multiple categories. The same author may be nominated in multiple categories in a single month as long as the nominations are for different books. In the case of identical nominations, precedence will go to the first one to receive a second.

7. Availability. Members nominating for a monthly Group Read will need to check that a copy of the text is reasonably available for members, and is available in English. Moderators may disallow a nomination if a copy is not readily available.

Nominations will remain open until the 14th of the month. Polls will open on the 16th and run until the end of the month.

[Jane]

I nominate "Malinovka Heights" by Ivan Goncharov

[Luffy Sempai]

I nominate The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, 882 pages, 1982.

[J_BlueFlower]

I nominate The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1200-1600 pages

I am listening to the Lex Fridman podcast, and in one episode Lex Fridman mentioned that he just finished reading it for the second time.

"The book is based upon captured Nazi documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, of General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of his six years in Germany (from 1934 to 1940) as a journalist, reporting on Nazi Germany for newspapers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ris...

[Sam]

Even classic readers need a beach read. I nominate Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 1991 627pp. Later editions state 850 pp.

[Heather L]

Sam wrote: "Even classic readers need a beach read. I nominate Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 1991 627pp. Later editions state 850 pp."

Second! I’ve been wanting to reread this for a while now.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I nominate The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 672 pages, 1869

Just 12,300+ ratings for 4.24 Stars.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I will second The Man Who Laughs. I love Hugo.

[Marilyn]

I nominate Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1088 pages, 1952

[Darren]

I second Stalingrad

[Klowey]

I second The Man Who Laughs. I think it exposes a horrific practice during the 19th C. that not many are aware of, and that I think has meaning today.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Malinovka Heights by Ivan Goncharov, 1869, 800 pp
Jane

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, 1982, 882 pp
Luffy

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1280 pp
J_Blueflower,

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 1991, 627 pp
Sam, Heather L,

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp
Bob, Sara, Klowey

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1952, 1088 pp
Marilyn, Darren,

Through Message #11

Please let me know if I have made any mistake or omitted anyone.

[Annette]

I second The Man Who Laughs.

[AiK]

I nominate Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 880 pages, 1857

[AiK]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I nominate The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1200-1600 pages

I am listening to the Lex Fridman podcast, and..."

I second.

[Tina]

I second Outlander.

[Jen]

I second Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

[Chuck]

I second Stalingrad

[Wobbley]

I second Little Dorrit.

[Laurie]

I second Little Dorrit

[Kimberly]

I nominate Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. First published 1998. 758 pages.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. First published 1998. 758 pages."

I will second!

[Sara, Old School Classics]

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp
Bob, Sara, Klowey, Annette

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1280 pp
J_Blueflower, AiK, Jen

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 1991, 627 pp
Sam, Heather L, Tina

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1952, 1088 pp
Marilyn, Darren, Chuck

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1857, 880 pp
Aik, Wobbley, Laurie

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 1998, 758 pp
Kimberly, Katy

Malinovka Heights by Ivan Goncharov, 1869, 800 pp
Jane

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, 1982, 882 pp
Luffy

Through Message #22

Please let me know if I have made any mistake or omitted anyone.

[Paula]

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. First published 1998. 758 pages."

I second

[Sam]

I second The Path to Power.

[Sam]

And thanks to Heather L and Tina for seconds

[Milena]

I second Malinovka Heights.

[Luffy Sempai]

Sam wrote: "I second The Path to Power."

Thanks!


Last Movie: Christmas with the Kranks (Joe Roth, 2004) 4/10

[J_BlueFlower]

Marilyn wrote: "I nominate Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1088 pages, 1952"

I second

[Margaret]

I second Malinovka Heights

[Lorraine]

I second Cloudsplitter.

[J_BlueFlower]

I finished listening to Lex Fridmans interview with Pakman, and he talked about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany some more.

Fridman ".... Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, I've read twice now. "

Pakman : "What did you get out of reading at the second time?" (technically it is Fridman interviewing Pakman....)

Fridman: ".... I get the same thing from it as I get maybe reading Man's Search for Meaning, which is all the troubles of day to day in the modern world fade away and dissipate when I'm thinking about the embodiment of evil at scale at that recent time in human history. It fills me with gratitude to have all the freedoms, all the simple joys of life that we have today. I think the second time as I was reading it, because William Shire was there, he's the author, he was there through the whole thing. You start to pick up little details. It's supposed to be like big things. You start to pick up the little quirks of how history turns and just like these little events. You notice the dynamics between people in a room during a meeting with Hitler. You just notice these little things that are mentioned because he was either there directly or heard it the next day. That's why to me, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is interesting. It's because it's by a guy who was there, who's reporting on it versus a more distant, displaced retelling."


BTW Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl would be a great nomination too someday.

[Janice]

I would like to second Little Dorrit.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nominations Standings - Two days remaining to nominate or second:

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp
Bob, Sara, Klowey, Annette

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1952, 1088 pp
Marilyn, Darren, Chuck, J_Blueflower, Radhya

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1857, 880 pp
Aik, Wobbley, Laurie, Janice

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 1998, 758 pp
Kimberly, Katy, Paula, Lorraine

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1280 pp
J_Blueflower, AiK, Jen, Kimberly

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 1991, 627 pp
Sam, Heather L, Tina

Malinovka Heights by Ivan Goncharov, 1869, 800 pp
Jane, Milena, Margaret, EvenB

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, 1982, 882 pp
Luffy, Sam

Through Message #33

Please let me know if I have made any mistake or omitted anyone.

[Radhya]

I second Stalingrad

[Kimberly]

I second The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

[EvenB]

I second Malinovka Heights